The Google Presentation feature in Google Docs is a fabulous little tool! You can create powerpoint-like presentations in it; you can also upload your own powerpoints to it. What is the advantage? The advantage is the ability to share your presentation online with anyone, anywhere, by either inviting them to view it or by giving a 'live' presentation to an 'audience' that you invite! The other advantage is that you can create a presentation that others could collaborate on, which is what we will do in this challenge. If you have never used Google presentation, watch the short tutorial, Learning Almanac: Google Presentations. Then follow the challenge directions below to add to the "Summer" presentation you see below.
Google Presentations is one of the helpful Google Docs tools. These tools are free to use and very convenient because you can access them anywhere you have internet access. Google Presentations is a slimmed down version of PowerPoint. If you know how to create a PowerPoint slide, you can do this. The advantage to using Google Presentations is, again, the ease of sharing and collaborating with others. You can also easily post your projects on blogs, wikis and web pages. Another fun feature of Google Presentations is that you can invite people to view your published presentation and people viewing can participate in a conversation about the the slides and presentation. Disadvantage: You cannot put in animations or slide transitions. If you upload a ppt, special effects like that will be lost.
1. The idea for this challenge is what is called a "Mashup" We will be using more than one Web 2.0 tool together.
2.This project can show the power of collaboration and hopefully spark ideas of how you could do similar projects in your libraries, across, grade levels, etc.
3. This is a project that can be done with students. In fact, the project will be greatly enhanced if students participate.
4. As always, the actual steps of the challenge will not take very long. Your time will be spent using your creative juices more than learning a new application.
Your challenge will be to add a slide to our collaborative Google Presentation "Summer in Six Words".
Flickr - If you do not already have an account on Flickr, you will have to make one first.
Never used Flickr before? Watch this tutorial.
We will use Flickr to find summer images. Please do an advanced search on Flickr . Make sure 'safe search' is selected and 'search only in creative commons licensed pictures. In the search box, put in tags related to summer (examples: "summer" "beach" "fireworks" .... whatever makes you think of summer.) Once you find a picture you like, click on it, then click on 'all sizes', download the medium size to your computer. Then go to the presentation we are working on collaboratively, insert a new slide, choose the format that has a caption on the bottom, then click on the little image icon. Upload your picture and write your six words in the caption space. Please give credit to the photographer.
Google Presentations
The Google Presentation feature in Google Docs is a fabulous little tool! You can create powerpoint-like presentations in it; you can also upload your own powerpoints to it. What is the advantage? The advantage is the ability to share your presentation online with anyone, anywhere, by either inviting them to view it or by giving a 'live' presentation to an 'audience' that you invite! The other advantage is that you can create a presentation that others could collaborate on, which is what we will do in this challenge. If you have never used Google presentation, watch the short tutorial, Learning Almanac: Google Presentations. Then follow the challenge directions below to add to the "Summer" presentation you see below.
Google Presentations is one of the helpful Google Docs tools. These tools are free to use and very convenient because you can access them anywhere you have internet access. Google Presentations is a slimmed down version of PowerPoint. If you know how to create a PowerPoint slide, you can do this. The advantage to using Google Presentations is, again, the ease of sharing and collaborating with others. You can also easily post your projects on blogs, wikis and web pages. Another fun feature of Google Presentations is that you can invite people to view your published presentation and people viewing can participate in a conversation about the the slides and presentation. Disadvantage: You cannot put in animations or slide transitions. If you upload a ppt, special effects like that will be lost.
1. The idea for this challenge is what is called a "Mashup" We will be using more than one Web 2.0 tool together.
2.This project can show the power of collaboration and hopefully spark ideas of how you could do similar projects in your libraries, across, grade levels, etc.
3. This is a project that can be done with students. In fact, the project will be greatly enhanced if students participate.
4. As always, the actual steps of the challenge will not take very long. Your time will be spent using your creative juices more than learning a new application.
Your challenge will be to add a slide to our collaborative Google Presentation "Summer in Six Words".
Flickr - If you do not already have an account on Flickr, you will have to make one first.
Never used Flickr before? Watch this tutorial.
We will use Flickr to find summer images. Please do an advanced search on Flickr . Make sure 'safe search' is selected and 'search only in creative commons licensed pictures. In the search box, put in tags related to summer (examples: "summer" "beach" "fireworks" .... whatever makes you think of summer.) Once you find a picture you like, click on it, then click on 'all sizes', download the medium size to your computer. Then go to the presentation we are working on collaboratively, insert a new slide, choose the format that has a caption on the bottom, then click on the little image icon. Upload your picture and write your six words in the caption space. Please give credit to the photographer.
Resources and Ideas:
Learning Almanac: Google Presentations
Google Docs in Language Arts